(1) PRECEDING
AUGUST 1 REQUIREMENTS. A new private school shall participate in a fiscal
management training program approved by the department and submit all of the
following to the department by August 1 of the school year immediately
preceding the school year that the school intends to participate in the choice
program:
(a) A new private school's notice of
intent to participate that includes all of the following:
1. The name and location of the accredited
institution of higher education from which the choice administrator received at
least a bachelor's degree and the date the degree was received, the number of
the choice administrator's teaching or administrator license issued by the
department, or an indication that the administrator is excluded from the
requirement under s.
119.23(2) (c) 2, Stats.
2. The signature and mailing address of the
choice administrator.
(b) The information specified under s.
119.23(6m) (a), Stats.
(c) The governing body members' signatures
required under s.
119.23(6p) (a) 2, Stats., and the mailing addresses for each
governing body member on a form provided by the department.
(e) A cashier's check or another guaranteed
manner permitted by the department for the auditor fee required under s.
119.23(2) (ag) 1 c., Stats.
(f) A budget and cash flow report, on a form
provided by the department, for the following school year that contains all of
the following:
1. Anticipated enrollments for
all pupils enrolled in the school.
2. Anticipated enrollments for choice program
pupils.
3. Estimated total revenues
and costs.
4. Estimated amounts
required under s.
PI 35.10(3)
(a).
5. A schedule of anticipated beginning and
ending net assets.
6. A schedule of
monthly cash flows.
6m. Anticipated
beginning and ending reserve balance.
7. The contingent funding sources the school
will use if actual enrollments are less than expected and evidence of the
availability of the funding sources.
8. A statement of whether the school has any
past due amounts, interest, or penalties due to the U.S. internal revenue
service, the Wisconsin department of workforce development, or the Wisconsin
department of revenue. An amount must be disclosed even if it is in dispute. If
a school has past due amounts, interest, or penalties due to a government
entity, the school shall do all of the following:
a. Disclose to the department the outstanding
amount owed.
b. Submit to the
department statements or other correspondence from the government entity
stating the amount the government entity claims is due, the amount in dispute,
and nature of the amount due.
Note: The notice of school's intent to participate
form for a new school, disclosure of information for new schools, and the
budget and cash flow report form may be obtained at no charge from the
Wisconsin department of public instruction's webpage at
http://dpi.wi.gov/sms/choice-programs.
(2) NEW PRIVATE SCHOOLS PARTICIPATION
INFORMATION. A new private school shall submit all of the following to the
department by January 10 of the school year immediately preceding the school
year that the school intends to participate in the choice program.
(a) The school's plan for ensuring it will
select pupils on a random basis from a new pool of applicants each school year,
as required under s.
119.23(3) (a), Stats. The school's plan shall be one of
the following:
1. The plan provided by the
department.
2. A plan provided by
the school and approved by the department. A school using this option shall
submit the plan to the department for approval by January 10. If the school
does not provide a plan by January 10 or the plan is not approved by the
department by January 31, the school shall use the plan provided by the
department. If the school makes a change to the plan in a subsequent school
year, the school shall submit, with the school's notice of intent to
participate, the revised plan to the department for approval.
(b) The number of spaces the
school has available for pupils participating in the choice program.
(bm) The expected number of choice program
pupils that will participate in summer school under s.
PI 35.08.
(c)
The open application periods during which the school will accept choice program
pupil applications. After January 10, a school may not amend the open
application periods it selects.
(d)
The name and location of the accredited institution of higher education from
which the choice administrator received at least a bachelor's degree and the
date the degree was received, the number of the choice administrator's teaching
or administrator license issued by the department, or an indication that the
administrator is excluded from the requirement under s.
119.23(2) (c) 2, Stats.
(e) The signature and mailing address of the
choice administrator.
Note: The new private schools participation
information form, which includes the department's random selection plan, may be
obtained at no charge from the Wisconsin department of public instruction's
webpage at http://dpi.wi.gov/sms/choice-programs.
(3) AUDITOR FEE PAYMENT
INCREASES. If the amount of the auditor fee for the school year in which the
school will first participate in the choice program is more than the amount
paid in sub. (1) (e), the new private school shall pay the difference between
the amount paid and the amount owed calculated under s.
PI 35.17(1) by January 10 of the school
year immediately preceding the school year that the school intends to
participate in the choice program. The school shall pay the difference with a
cashier's check or another guaranteed manner permitted by the
department.
(4) THIRD PARTY PAYROLL
PROVIDER. By August 1 of the first school year in which a new private school
intends to participate in the choice program, a new private school shall submit
to the department an executed contract with a third-party payroll service
showing that the payroll service will remit federal and state payroll taxes for
each employee of the school.
